Mukhyamantri Atyant Pichhda Varg Medhavriti Yojana (Bihar)

What is Mukhyamantri Atyant Pichhda Varg Medhavriti Yojana?

Mukhyamantri Atyant Pichhda Varg Medhavriti Yojana is a merit scholarship of the Government of Bihar for students of the Extremely Backward Classes who clear the Class 10 board examination in first division. The scheme is listed by the Backward Classes and Extremely Backward Classes Welfare Department on its official site at state.bihar.gov.in/bcebcwelfare as one of the department's main education schemes, alongside the OBC pre-matric scholarship, the OBC post-matric scholarship and the parallel Mukhyamantri Pichhda Varg Medhavriti Yojana for Backward Class students. Readers who search for it in Hindi will see it written as मुख्यमंत्री अत्यंत पिछड़ा वर्ग मेधावृत्ति योजना.

The purpose is narrow and specific. Bihar already runs a large post-matric scholarship that reimburses course fees and pays a maintenance allowance year after year. Medhavriti sits on top of that as a one-time reward for the moment a student clears the matriculation hurdle well, which is the point at which drop-out rates among EBC families are highest. Published scheme summaries, including the myScheme entry maintained by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, put the award at about Rs 10,000, paid once, directly into the student's own bank account.

Two things follow from that design. First, Medhavriti is not an annual maintenance grant, so it does not replace the post-matric scholarship. Second, the trigger is the board result itself, not enrolment in a particular college, so a student can receive the award before deciding what to study next.

Who is eligible for the EBC Medhavriti scholarship?

You are covered if:

• You belong to a caste notified as Extremely Backward Class in Bihar and hold a valid EBC caste certificate.
• You are a permanent resident of Bihar and can produce a residence certificate.
• You passed the Class 10 board examination in first division from a recognised board.
• You hold a bank account in your own name that is Aadhaar-seeded for Direct Benefit Transfer.

You are not eligible if:

• You belong to the general category, to Backward Class, or to SC or ST. Each of those groups has its own scheme; Backward Class students go to Mukhyamantri Pichhda Varg Medhavriti Yojana, and SC and ST students to the SC/ST Welfare Department's Medhavriti scheme.
• You passed Class 10 in second or third division.
• You are domiciled outside Bihar.
• You have already drawn the same award once. Medhavriti is a one-time benefit.
• You are simultaneously drawing another scholarship for the same course in the same academic session, which the Bihar Post Matric Scholarship portal lists as a ground for rejection.

There is no separate income ceiling published for the merit award itself. Income proof becomes relevant only if you also apply for the BC and EBC post-matric scholarship, where an income certificate issued on or after 1 April of the current financial year is required.

What documents are required?

Scan every document as a clear PDF. The Bihar scholarship portals cap individual uploads at a few hundred kilobytes, so compress files rather than photographing them at full camera resolution.

How to apply for the EBC Medhavriti scholarship

1. Get your certificates first. Apply at your block RTPS counter or on serviceonline.bihar.gov.in for the EBC caste certificate and the residence certificate. These take days to weeks and are the single biggest cause of missed deadlines.
2. Seed your Aadhaar with a bank account. Open an account in your own name if you do not have one, then ask the branch to complete NPCI-DBT seeding, not merely Aadhaar linking. The BC/EBC portal will not let an application be finalised until the Aadhaar seeding check passes.
3. Open the active scholarship portal. Check medhasoft.bihar.gov.in for the board-result-linked scheme links and pmsonline.bihar.gov.in for the BC and EBC scholarship registration. Your school office or District Welfare Officer will tell you which one is carrying Medhavriti registration in your year.
4. Register. Enter your Class 10 roll code, roll number, date of birth and mobile number. The portal generates a user ID and password and sends them by SMS.
5. Fill the application form. Enter your caste, category, residence details, bank account number and IFSC exactly as printed in the passbook. A single wrong digit in the IFSC is enough to fail the payment.
6. Upload the documents listed above and submit.
7. Finalise the application. An application that is saved but not finalised is not considered. Note the reference number shown on the confirmation screen.

How to apply offline

1. Visit the Block Welfare Office or the District Welfare Officer with your marksheet, caste certificate, residence certificate, Aadhaar and bank passbook.
2. Ask the welfare officer for the departmental scholarship form and submit it with self-attested copies.
3. Collect a dated receipt. Field-level scrutiny in this department runs through the Block Welfare Officer, the District Welfare Officer and the Regional Deputy Director (Welfare), in that order.

Schools also submit consolidated lists of first-division EBC students, so speak to your Class 10 school office even after you have left it.

How much is paid and when?

Mukhyamantri Atyant Pichhda Varg Medhavriti Yojana pays a one-time award reported at about Rs 10,000. Payment is by Direct Benefit Transfer into the student's Aadhaar-seeded account, in batches, once district-level verification of the caste certificate and the board result is complete. There is no monthly or quarterly component and no renewal, so there is nothing to reapply for in the following year.

Because the amounts are fixed by an annual sanction order rather than by statute, the figure can change from year to year. Treat the Rs 10,000 figure as the published amount and confirm it against the current circular on the department's site before you count on it.

How to check your application and payment status

1. Log in to the same portal you used to apply, with the user ID and password sent to your mobile number.
2. Open the application status screen. It will show one of: pending at institute, pending at district, defect, sanctioned, or rejected.
3. If the status reads defect, correct the flagged field and finalise again. The Bihar Post Matric Scholarship portal gives a maximum of three correction attempts and a 15-day window to fix a defect before the application is rejected outright.
4. If the status reads sanctioned but no money has arrived, the problem is almost always at the bank end. Check your Aadhaar-DBT seeding status on the NPCI mapper through your bank.

Why applications get rejected, and how to fix each one

• Caste certificate does not name an EBC caste. Bihar's BC and EBC lists are different. A Backward Class certificate does not qualify for the EBC scheme. Re-apply through RTPS with the correct caste entry.
• Division does not match. The board result is verified electronically, so a second-division result cannot be argued around.
• Aadhaar not DBT-seeded. Linking Aadhaar to an account is not the same as seeding it with NPCI for DBT. Ask the branch specifically for DBT seeding.
• Bank account in a parent's name. The account must be the student's own.
• Duplicate scholarship. Drawing another scholarship for the same course in the same session is an explicit ground for rejection on the BC/EBC portal.
• Documents issued outside the valid date range. Income certificates must be dated on or after 1 April of the current financial year, and academic documents must fall inside the session dates the portal specifies.

Key dates to watch

Bihar announces the Medhavriti window after the Class 10 board results, so the date shifts every year. The nearest fixed reference points published by the department's own portal are the BC and EBC Post Matric Scholarship windows: 15 July 2026 to 15 September 2026 for the 2026-27 session, and 25 August 2025 to 15 November 2025 for the combined 2024-25 and 2025-26 cycle, with a finalisation cut-off of 25 December 2025 for revisions.

Where to complain if nothing moves

• BC and EBC Welfare Department, Patna — 0612-2215261 (Additional Chief Secretary's office) and 0612-2215406 (OSD). Office address: Newly constructed building, Block-4, Old Secretariat, Patna 800015.
• District Welfare Officer of your district, who is the first escalation point for a stalled verification.
• Regional Deputy Director (Welfare) for your division, above the district officer.
• The department has also fixed a public meeting slot with the Principal Secretary from 4 pm to 6 pm, notified on its website.

No agent can get your name added to the Medhavriti list, and no fee is payable to anyone for applying. Every rupee of the award is paid by DBT into the student's own account.